Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while abroad, many dealing with the daily doings of the little dog she gave him to remember her by. Some $100,000 was fruitlessly spent at Queen Mary's order in doing over Marlborough House in 1928 to make it a suitable home for the Prince and a Princess of Wales...
...mother Queen Victoria Eugénie, who rushed to Manhattan when her eldest son Don Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, was nearly dying of hemophilia (TIME, Sept. 28), continued last week to prove that by firmly declining U. S. publicity it is perfectly easy to escape it. As a British Princess in her own right and a granddaughter of the late great Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria Eugénie last week visited the British Embassy in Washington as the house guest of Lady Lindsay, avoided the notoriety of meeting "those people," Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. Whether or not Victoria...
...second child. ¶Queen Mary's amiable brother Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone and onetime Governor General of the Union of South Africa, added to the gaiety of the annual Lorfdon Antique Dealers' Fair by remarking publicly of his popular wife Princess Alice: "I always have the greatest difficulty in getting her away from the window of an art dealer's shop. She remains there with her nose glued to the glass rather like a child looking into a tuck shop." ¶To the surprise of Welshmen, the dragon passant, emblematic...
...Since popular little Princess Elizabeth, favorite grandchild of the late King George, would become Queen Elizabeth upon the death of the King and her father the Duke of York who frequently fly in the same plane, readers of the London Sunday Times conned with interest last week an account of the education now projected for Her Royal Highness. According to the Sunday Times she will continue to study at home under Miss Crawford and other tutors because "there is the difficulty of choosing a suitable school without causing great jealousy." "Another Queen Elizabeth on the Throne," continued the Sunday Times...
...King Edward's 13-year-old nephew, Viscount Lascelles, elder son of the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, reached in his Eton schooldays last week that awful moment at which his Tutor assigned him to "fag" for a senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus...